Ultimate Parent Empowerment

California’s “parent trigger ” law enacted in 2010 permits parents with a 51% vote in a failing school to either close the school, replace the school’s administrators, replace the school’s teachers, or convert the school into a charter. Making the news, parents at McKinley Elementary School in Compton California voted 60% to transform their school into a charter school. Earlier this year a majority of parents at Mount Gleason Middle School in Sunland-Tujunga, CA voted to transform their school. The outcomes of these votes are not yet known, may be challenged, and considered revolutionary.